...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.